from Tell Me How It Makes You Feel
Because these are the documents we’re never to destroy. // Because these are the documents we’re never to falsify or duplicate for forgery or for profit’s sake. // Because… More
Seven Poems by Valerie Hsiung
(I am withholding something / frightening, holy, foolhardy, strange, / loving, excruciating, vital, unknown, / rejuvenating, transient, natural, old) // like a free will / like nowhere to go More
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Colleagues @PENsweden and Culture Minister @amandalind_ rightly face down thuggish Chinese threats of reprisal for honoring Swedish bookseller Gui Minhai who has been detained for 4 yrs and is believed to be seriously ill https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-sweden/china-envoy-threatens-sweden-over-award-to-detained-writer-gui-minhai-idUSKBN1XP197
BERKELEY! Calling all poetry lovers for an intimate evening of readings from author Marilyn Chin and San Francisco Jazz Poet Laureate Genny Lim. Join us 11/20 at Moe's Bookstore. Learn more and RSVP: https://bit.ly/2K33tfg.
“You make the book, you send it out into the world, and it will connect with the people that it’s for,” says PEN America Member Margaret Atwood. THE TESTAMENTS is her fast-paced sequel to her celebrated dystopian novel THE HANDMAID'S TALE: https://bit.ly/2XjJ76T via @people.